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The Indian head of the UN climate change panel defended his position today even as further errors were identified in the panel's assessment of Himalayan glaciers.

The timetable to reach a global deal to tackle climate change lay in tatters on Wednesday after the United Nations waived the first deadline of the process laid out at last month’s fractious Copenhagen summit.

A warning that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.


Standards set in effort to prevent algae blooms, ‘dead zones’. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday proposed the first numeric limits in the nation for farm and urban runoff polluting Florida's waterways, limits supporters say could set precedent and lead to similar federal standards in other states.
The White House announced Friday the awarding of $2.3 billion in tax credits — the money comes from last year’s stimulus bill — to companies to create “green jobs”. The grant will create 17,000 cleantech jobs.
Sensenbrenner is going to attend the Copenhagen conference on climate change to protest new laws until "scientific fascism" ends.
Seriously. What are all those terms they are using at the climate summit. Nice article on all that technical jargon and confusing acronyms that will be debated as world leaders aim to to strike a deal that will attempt to prevent devastating climate change.
Despite the fact that the European Union has been a leader in pushing for the Copenhagen Summit, the Europeans have been brushed to the sidelines as China and the US jump in.
Battles between homeowners groups and property owners are cropping up across the state as the installation of solar systems becomes more affordable and utility costs rise. Apparently they think that solar panels decrease the property value.


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